In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do learn to cope with it. The funny thing is, as you begin to inhabit larger places, it's very interesting how quickly you adapt to your space. What seems enormous at first becomes natural after a few weeks.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.

I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.